Unit two Baroque and Rococco flash cards

Set: Unit two Baroque and Rococco

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Durer	16th century art outside italy; German painter and engraver, studied math, Latin, and classical literature, studied classical sculptures to learn ideal human proportions, encouraged artists to study measurement and geometry as the keys to understanding the renaissance art, and became especially skilled at making engravings and woodcuts....printed first sole landscape
Holbein	16th century art outside italy very northern, tightly rendered, objects importance. skull at bottom about death: all things fleeting
Bosch	16th century art outside italy: 1480-1516, a northern painter who was completely isolated from Italian influences, "The Garden of Delights" ...very northern, triptic, were in paradise, no rules, go to hell
Aertsen	16th century art outside italy; still life- Butcher commission it Dutch 16th century.
Brugel	16the century art outside italy; realistic not naturalistic, interested in proverbs, Dutch, "Hunter in the Snow" very naturalistic landscape, no underlining meaning
Maderno	Italian Baroque: did facade of saint peter's Vatican city, center of catholic world, not stable design, emphasized vertical, Italian Baroque
Bernini	Italian Baroque: 2nd Michelangelo. architecture/ sculpture, , a Italian baroque architect and sculptor. Made the Colonnade for piazza in from of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and was his greatest architectural work, and the Canopy over the high altar of St. Peter's Cathedral, and the altarpiece The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, that shows a lot of emotion
Borromini	Italian Baroque: Bernini's contemporary and rival, the better architect of the two. Italian Baroque, has two fascade, throwing out rules
Carracci	Italian Baroque; Most significant of a family of Bolognese painters. rarely inimate lots of people, opera like everything in light. full of greek characters, Italian baroque
Caravaggio	Italian Baroque: painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light (1573-1610) italian baroque. used tineburoso: uses sfumato and chairoscuro, raking light: hard line of dark and light. used single light source. spent whole life running from law
Gentileschi	Italian Baroque; painted strong heroic women in her paintings. trained under her father; full of action, sawing head off, was rapped by dads worker showed emotion in work
Pozzo	Italian baroque busy, full of action, color, implied action outside, fake architecture, illusionist
Velazquez	painting of a painter painting a painting.. Developed a very realistic style of portraying subjects (non-idealized). Popularized and brought dignity to bodegones (genre subjects).
Rubens	Flemish Baroque; treats flesh soft like, womanly, four influences: 1. Leonardo (Sfmato affect) 2. Michelangelo (big figures) 3. Raphael (softness) 4. Caravaggio (dramatic) 17th century Flemish Baroque painter known for his counter reformation altarpieces,portraits, landscapes, and history paintings.
Van Dyck	Flemish Baroque; Prolific 17th Century Flemish Portraitist, the quintCharles I Dismounted, essential painter of aristocracy., talented at capturing elements of characters,
Poussin	French Baroque. looks like renaissance Louis 14th style. mainstream painting, archanean- scene unburned simple. not a lot of emtion (shows emotion= weakness)
Lorrain	French Baroque. not renaissance more romantic then intellectual mainstream louis 14th
Hardovin-mansart and Le Brun	French Baroque Architects of Palace of Versailles, hall of mirrors
Wren	British Baroque; main architect, London burned down so needed to rebuild it, , English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723)
Watteau	has theatrical poses, whole look is "fluffy" feathery his Rococo work reflected his lyrical views of aristocratic life while having an element of sadness as the artist revealed the fragility and transitory nature of pleasure,love,and life(Painted Return from Cythera)
Fragonard	all about fun, fluffy, two men having a thing one person. The Swing, French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806)
Clodion	French Rococo, usually mythological, about sex and drinking (Nymph and satyr)
Jacques-Louis David	Neoclassism, scene of play not in painting, looks to caravaggio for light, (also did painting of death of marat a dedication)
Vermeer	Dutch Baroque Art; Lived in Deft, Always had something special in his work, paints exactly what he sees, (=Typographical) (painted "love letter") , Dutch painter renowned for his use of light and painted everyday scenes (1632-1675)
Van Ruisdael	emotionally driven Landscapes. Genre Artist of Landscapes, Dutch, romantic not typographical, more atmosphere dramatic higher contrast,
Claesz	still life genre; still life with crystal goblet, sophisticated lots of money
Hals	spontenous quality, very painterly brushwork; created portraits of everyday life, embodied the spirit of the Dutch people, famous work : The Laughing Cavalier
Rembrandt	doesn't tell about dutch culture, paints portaits of rich people in stoic way, Dutch painter, who painted portraits of wealthy middle-class merchants and used sharp contrasts of light and shadow to draw attention to his focus